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Altering pyrroloquinoline quinone nutritional status modulates mitochondrial,...
We have reported that pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) improves reproduction, neonatal development, and mitochondrial function in animals by mechanisms that involve mitochondrial... -
Adherence to HAART: a systematic review of developed and developing nation pa...
Background Adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) medication is the greatest patient-enabled predictor of treatment success and mortality for those who have... -
Cost Analysis of Integrating the PrePex Medical Device into a Voluntary Medic...
Background Fourteen African countries are scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention. Several devices that might offer alternatives to the three... -
Increasing Awareness about Antibiotic Use and Resistance: A Hands-On Project ...
Background Health-promoting education is essential to foster an informed society able to make decisions about socio-scientific issues based on scientifically sustained... -
Enabling Policy Planning and Innovation Management through Patent Information...
Submitted by Vanessa Suane (vanessa.suane@icict.fiocruz.br) on 2016-05-05T13:03:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012. Enabling policy planning and innovation management through patent... -
Age Distribution of Cases of 2009 (H1N1) Pandemic Influenza in Comparison wit...
INTRODUCTION: Several aspects of the epidemiology of 2009 (H1N1) pandemic influenza have not been accurately determined. We sought to study whether the age distribution of cases... -
What parents of children who have received emergency care think about deferri...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate parents' views about deferred consent to inform management of trial disclosure after a child's death. METHODS: A postal questionnaire survey was... -
Secure Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistant Organism Colonization or Infec...
Background There is stigma attached to the identification of residents carrying antimicrobial resistant organisms (ARO) in long term care homes, yet there is a need to collect... -
Risk Factors for Non-Adherence and Loss to Follow-Up in a Three-Year Clinical...
Background: Participant non-adherence and loss to follow-up can compromise the validity of clinical trial results. An assessment of these issues was made in a 3-year... -
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Renouncing to Universal Access to Antiretro...
AIM: Previous economic literature on the cost-effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs has been mainly focused on the microeconomic consequences of alternative... -
How well do discharge diagnoses identify hospitalised patients with community...
BACKGROUND: Credible measures of disease incidence, trends and mortality can be obtained through surveillance using manual chart review, but this is both time-consuming and... -
"Expanded HIV Testing in Low-Prevalence, High-Income Countries: A Cost-Effect...
Objective In many high-income countries with low HIV prevalence, significant numbers of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) remain undiagnosed. Identification of PLHIV via HIV... -
Effect of thermal ballast loading on temperature stability of domestic refrig...
Vaccine temperature control failures represent a significant public and private healthcare cost. Vaccines damaged by excessive heat or freezing lose their effectiveness, putting... -
Willingness to Participate in HIV Vaccine Trials among Men Who Have Sex with ...
Background Recruitment of low- and middle-income country volunteers from most-at-risk populations in HIV vaccine trials is essential to vaccine development. In India, men who... -
Needs Assessment for Performance Improvement of Personnel in Charge of Epidem...
Background In line with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), the Morocco health surveillance system has been reinforced via infrastructure strengthening and... -
High risk sexual behaviors for HIV among the in-school youth in Swaziland: a ...
Background Global efforts in response to the increased prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are mainly aimed at reducing high risk sexual behaviors among young... -
The US President's Malaria Initiative, Plasmodium falciparum transmission and...
Background Although significant progress has been made in reducing malaria transmission globally in recent years, a large number of people remain at risk and hence the gains... -
Financial Evaluation of Different Vaccination Strategies for Controlling the ...
BACKGROUND: Bluetongue (BT) is a vector-borne disease of ruminants caused by bluetongue virus that is transmitted by biting midges (Culicoides spp.). In 2006, the introduction... -
A controlled trial of the knowledge impact of tuberculosis information leafle...
BACKGROUND: Information leaflets are widely used to increase awareness and knowledge of disease. Limited research has, to date, been undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of these... -
Fighting Misconceptions to Improve Compliance with Influenza Vaccination amon...
The compliance with influenza vaccination is poor among health care workers (HCWs) due to misconceptions about safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccine. We proposed an...
